At this very time - we needed players in quick ! And the "best ones had gone" !

Why - because half the squad had been culled by NW

We know all this.....so with NW / PD / TS and AS all involved....that's as it should be....at that time who was left to bring in ( on a FREE ) - I don't know - you don't know but we were desparately short of players putting DB's agents in the driving seat....that was not Stubbs fault at all and he was right about not wasting money on Bradshaw and Gregory .

Ward went onto score 1 / 2 for the opening 12 / 13 matches....we had Yates and JCH coming back from injury so Stubbs didn't waste money on anyone we didn't need and / or was no better than we had !

The responsibility for DB's lack of matches was the responsibility of KJ & PW....after AS went and DB's wages were the responsibility of gross mismanagement of all things pre-season - NW procrastination - and TS waiting!

Time pressure is an agents dream and we were out-negotiated....end off !

I am sure that Douglas did negotiate the wages and that TS sanctioned it but do you really believe that Stubbs did not know how much the deal was and did not advise that it was a good deal. Why would he have input on the proposed transfer costs and not the wages issue?

I don't expect a sensible reply by the way. If Stubbs took a dump in your bed you would either frame it and hang it on the wall or blame Paul Warne.

No - quite the opposite WRINKS you appear to be satisfied with the whitewash answers....I look for a little bit more detail that squares reality !

TS had the hand on the cheque book and we had a wage structure.....that PD would stick to....

We had our leg lifted it's as easy as that !

And mainly due to Warnock pi55ing us about.

As for "value for money - ref: Villa's waste if money costing 12 million pound and much more per week than DB. And he was free !...

We were in the championship where ball boys get more than DB was on !

How long can mods tolerated unsubstantiated rants and insults !

Wasn't it mellow who trolled this thread with a nasty unsubstantiated comment - the mods should have a measure on fact over fiction.....comment v threat ....however if all comments were scrutinised on facts they're would be nothing to read at all.

Grow up boys pick on someone else it's a new season and Warnsey is manager....

Just in case any Colchester fans are reading. Blackstock would be a great signing, a real team player, hard working and will score 20+ goals a season. You should definitely sign him up, if he is available.

I truly doubt the "decision makers" at any club will read the posts / tweets / whatever - communications of any fans - so if DB goes it'll be their calculated risk - as is any player brought into a club.

Just in case any Colchester fans are reading. Blackstock would be a great signing, a real team player, hard working and will score 20+ goals a season. You should definitely sign him up, if he is available.

1 I doubt any Colchester fans are reading this
2 Colchester have no fans

I truly doubt the "decision makers" at any club will read the posts / tweets / whatever - communications of any fans - so if DB goes it'll be their calculated risk - as is any player brought into a club.

I bet he can't wait to go!

Released by mutual consent headlines soon then ?

Don't think he's in any rush to go, From wot I've herd he's laughing his head off and does not give a **** about football and will put no effort into working his way into a team. Your football knowledge is 0 and you give the same arguments to get a rise!!. To believe that the manager who would not sanction 2 strikers earlier in the season, would have nothing to do with the wage demands of said player is just plane bull****. Grow up now pal cos it's boring. If you love Stubbs that much go and watch wot ever club he's at now ( or will be ) and give us a rest.

This presented me with a major dilemma. Was I worthy of being on the same board as a man of such proven cerebral standing or should I quit before IBJ baffled the life out of me and made me look a complete ignoramus?

Kempo, too, confessed in a quiet moment (of which he has so very few) that IBJ's proclamation had him quaking in his boots (of Spanish leather, natch.)

Kempo is the brains behind all operations and suggested (after much deep thought) that we link arms and soldier on. If the inevitable happened and IBJ's celebrity puts us to shame, so be it. And at the very worst we might pick up lots from IBJ that we wouldn't normally have come across given our limited social and intellectual circles.

How misguided we were. It now turns out that IBJ is a thoroughgoing tool and a bore of epic proportions. To be succinct? Go home IBJ and take your ball and flaming repetition with you.

Anyone else notice that anytime the question of his football knowledge is asked to back up his views he never posts back, Or a few posters really question his views with facts he stops posting. As I've said he's the worst wind up merchant ever and most likely a multi. Just do not post back the poor bloke will soon get bored and move on to the next name